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Oblique aerial photographs at St. Catherines Island, Georgia

By St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Storm waves and currents eroded the sand dunes
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Location 4: Oblique aerial photographs at St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Oblique aerial photographs collected before (top) and after (bottom) Hurricane Matthew. Storm waves and currents eroded the sand dunes, allowing sand to be transported landward into the marsh. The yellow arrows in each image points to the same features in both photos.

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Public Domain.